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rebuke

noun
/ɹiˈbjuːk/

Etymology

From Middle English rebuken, from Anglo-Norman rebuker (“to beat back, repel”), from re- + Old French *buker, buchier, buschier (“to strike, hack down, chop”), from busche (“wood”), from Vulgar Latin *busca (“wood, grove”), from Frankish *busk (“grove”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”); equivalent to re- + bush.

  1. derived from *buskaz✻ — “bush”
  2. derived from *busk✻
  3. derived from *busca✻ — “wood, grove”
  4. derived from *buker✻
  5. derived from rebuker — “to beat back, repel”
  6. inherited from rebuken

Definitions

  1. A harsh criticism.

    • U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican's No. 2 official, following a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants and Vance’s theological justification of it.

  2. To criticise harshly

    To criticise harshly; to reprove.

    • O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
    • When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.

The neighborhood

Derived

rebukeful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rebuke. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rebuke. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at rebuke

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA